Water-pail



(NoMbdeL) F. W. PARSONS.

Water Pail.

No. 235,564. Patented Dec. 14,1880.

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FRANCIS W. PARSONS, OF CLEVELAND, OHlO.

WATER-PAIL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 235,564, dated December 14, 1880.

Application filed October 5, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS WV. PARSONS, of Cleveland, in the county of Guyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and Improved Water-Pail; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and complete description thereof.

The nature ofmy improvement in water-pails relates to making the body or barrel thereof of two, three, or more veneers, which are so laminated that the ends of each veneer abut together at points remote from the seam or abutting ends of the adjoining veneer, to break joints by lapping over or covering the joint with the next adjacent veneer, whereby the joints are closed, protected, and strengthened by thelaminae of the sheets, which are cemented together by suitable insoluble cement.

The improvement also relates to the manner of securing the bottom. of the pail in place by means of the lower hoop, which is so formed as to curve around under the chine, thence upward to the bottom, forming an annular shoulder, upon which the bottom rests, and is thereby supported conjoint] y with the croze.

A further and more full description of said invention is as follows, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which-' Figure 1 represents a piece of veneer cut to the length and shape to form one lamina of the number that may be used to attain the desired thickness for the sides of the pail. Fig. 2 is a side view of the improved pail. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section. Fig. 4 is a top view of the inside.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several views.

Wooden pails, tubs, 850., usually consist of more or less number of staves set up and held together with hoops. The grainiot' the wood being in'alignment with the staves, it is necessary to make the article of considerable thickness, not only to obtain a close tongue-andgroove joint of the staves, but to secure the required strength for the sides of the pail, as the upward direction of the grain of the staves renders themless strong than if thegrain ran around in direction of the hoops, or spirally around.

The nature of wood is to shrink transversely (No model.)

to the grain more than lengthwise therewith; hence pails on standing empty become leaky by the shrinking of the staves, the hoops fall oft, and the article goes to pieces. To avoid these several defects of the ordinary wooden pail, tub, 850., and to produce one lighter, of less material, and more durable, is the purpose of this invention. To this end astrip or piece of scale-board or veneer is cut to the shape shown in Fig. 1, with the grain lengthwise. It is proposed to use three of such strips for the body of the pail, and more for larger articles,

as tubs, 850.

Let it be supposed the piece A (shownin Fig. 1) be the first or inner lamina of the three of which the pail is to be made up, as seen at A in Fig. 4. The second piece, a little longer, but of the same shape, is laid upon the piece A, with the end thereof more or less distant from the end of said piece A, so that when the two pieces are bent to form the body of the article the ends, respectively,\of each of the pieces will come together, .but the abutment of the ends of one piece will be distant from the abutting ends of the others, as seen in Fig. 4, in which a is the abutting line or seam of the inner lamina, A, and b the abutting line or seam ot' the second or middle lamina, B. In said figure it will be observed that the two laminae or pieces break joint. The third piece or lamina, O, in like manner, is laid upon the piece B, so that when it is bent around the outside of the pieces A and B the abutting line will be distant from the abutting lines of the other two, as seen at c in Fig. 4. The several pieces of veneer, before being bent to form the body of the pail, are glued or cemented to each other by some suitable material impervious to the action of water. Said insoluble material may consist of two parts of dry white lead and one of red lead, mixed and ground with furniture-varnish to the consistency of readymade glue, or the equivalent thereof. The sheets of veneer, when thus prepared, are bent over a form or otherwise and secured by the metal hoops D. A croze is then made to receive the bottom E, in the usual way, and it is securedin place by the metal hoop F. Said hoop F, as seen in Fig. 3, not only embraces the side of the pail, but it curves around under the chine and extends upward to the bottom,

forming an annular flange or shoulder, 6, upon which the bottom is supported conjointly with the croze, thereby making the attachment of the bottom to the body of the pail strong and durable.

A pail or tub made as above described is not only lighter than when made of ordinary wooden staves, for the reason that the sides are much thinner, but it is also strong by virtue of the grain of the wood being around the pail, as the material in that direction shrinks little, if any; therefore the pail is not liable to fall to pieces when standing dry.

In making up the laminated body of the pail or tub the several pieces of veneer may be arranged so that the grain in each piece will be at a greater or less angle with respect to each other, thereby securing the sides of the pail from Warping or splitting.

One or more of the veneers may be arranged spirally around the adjoining sheet after it has been shaped into a tubular form for the article, as indicated by the dotted lines (I, a, Fig. 2, which may form the exterior of the pail, or intermediate between the outer and in ner laminae. For additional strength the sheets may be arranged to fold around over each other in opposite spiral directions, with the edges abutting together to admit of the sheets and spiral pieces being in close contact over the entire surfaces when cemented together. These spiral pieces may be arranged together or jointly with the other laminae of the article, as before mentioned.

What 1 claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, a pail composed of two or more laminated scale-boards or sheets of wood veneers cemented to each other by suitable adhesive material, forming the body of the pail, with the abutting ends of each sheet arranged in such relation as to break joints, and provided with a bottom secured to the said body by means of a hoop having an annular flange or shoulder, substantially in the manner as set forth.

In testimony whereof I at'fix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANCIS \V. PARSONS. Witnesses:

J. H. BURRIDGE, I. ENRIGHT. 

